Age set
A named group of people of about the same age who pass through the stages of life together.
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In societies with age sets, boys or girls initiated in the same period form a lifelong group. The group moves together from one stage to the next, for example from youth to warrior to elder. An age set cuts across families and clans and binds a wider society together.